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[Jonathan Lighter]

CNN: "She is Judge Gorsuch's confirmation sherpa."

She "guides him through the confirmation process."

They may think it's related to "shepherd."

(I must have been forty before I discovered that "Sherpa" was a tribal, not
an occupational, designation. But that was then.)

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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